The Nerd Degree

Six nerds.Two teams.No Wikipedia.

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S05E02: Alien Anniversary

Monday 3 June 2019

Exactly 40 years ago, Alien burst out of a rubber egg and into our collective hearts/chest cavities. To celebrate this pop culture milestone the nerds do a deep dive into all things Alien from original fan fiction, to unexpected conspiracy theories and obscure behind the scenes trivia.
Hosted by Erin Harrington
Featuring: Andrew Todd, Moata Tamaira, Scott Koorey, Ben Allan, and Jeff Clark

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S05E01: International Women's Day Special

Wednesday 20 March 2019

Women. Non-men. We make up 51% of the population, and finally get an episode all to ourselves! It’s 2019 after all. Join us as the nerds celebrate all of women’s amazing historical and cultural achievements since the dawn of time til now, including all the stuff MEN DON’T WANT YOU TO KNOW ABOUT, by talking very very fast, which we’re very good at doing, apparently.

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S04E10: Famous Last Nerds

Wednesday 12 December 2018

The nerds celebrate (or commiserate) the end of the year with a look and endings and end times. Will the nerds get their happily ever after? Will it be the end of the nerd as we know it? And - most importantly - will there be a post-credits scene that sets up the next series?
Hosted by Dr. Erin Harrington.
Featuring: Moata Tamaira and Ray Shipley vs Jeff Clark and Shen Mansell

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S04E09: Monsters!

Wednesday 7 November 2018

It’s close to midnight and something evil’s lurking in the dork… In NERD DEGREE: MONSTER MASH the nerds go on an undead excursion to the garden of ghoulish delights. They’ll be (grave)digging monstrous facts, tearing the guts out of much-loved horror classics, and seeing who lasts til dawn, all in the hope of taking home the greatest prize of all: their lives. Or maybe just their pride. Definitely one of them. Hosted by Dr Erin Harrington, who did her PhD on women in horror films, because that’s a thing.

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WORD Christchurch Festival Special: Adventures!

Saturday 29 September 2018

The Nerd Degree returns to WORD Christchurch to help end the festival with a laugh. Taking up the theme of adventure, comedian Brendon Bennetts invites four brave writers, Karen Healey, Erin Harrington, Nic Low and Jolisa Gracewood to test their wits and journey into a world of obscure facts and esoteric arguments in a quest to find the nerdiest wit and the wittiest nerd.

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S04E07: Names and Nomenclature

Tuesday 7 August 2018

Join the nerds as they explore the world of nomenclature and all things name-related. They’ll be getting a handle on their handles, sorting their sobriquets from their pseudonyms, and probably getting their monikers in a twist.
Hosted by Moata Tamaira
Moderator: Jeff Clark
Featuring: Erin Harrington & Karen Healey vs Todd Dixon & Brendon Bennetts

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S04E06: 1968

Wednesday 11 July 2018

Age of Nerdquarius
Hey, like, what’s happening man? Don’t bogart that mint condition Batgirl #1. It’s fifty years on from the rise of the counterculture, so the nerds are gonna smear on some patchouli, chuck on some Ravi Shankar, and take you on the ultimate trip down the pop culture rabbit hole. Groovy.
Host: Erin Harrington, Moderator: Andrew Kepple
Panel: Shen Mansell and Liv Mckenzie vs Moata Tamaira and Ray Shipley

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S04E05: The Young and the Wrestlers

Tuesday 12 June 2018

Can you smell what the Nerd Degree is cooking? Lace up your boots, ready your gimmicks, and grab your tag-team partner - it’s time for us to lay the smackdown. Join us ringside and find out: what’s the difference between a swanton bomb and a senton bomb? What do neon lightbulbs, folding chairs, and sledgehammers have in common? And just how backyard can backyard wrestling get? Only one team will walk away with the gold.
Hosted by Jennifer O'Sullivan
Featuring: Jeff Clark and Moata Tamaira vs Karen Healey and Brendon Bennetts
Special Guests: AK Sweet and a Masked Nerd

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S0404: Cooking!

Wednesday 9 May 2018

Fee-fi-fo-fum, the time for nerds to cook has come! Since humans first realised that putting stuff on a fire made it taste better, we’ve tried to make food our mouths enjoy. Join our nerds on a culinary adventure as they explore the often delicious and occasionally terrifying world of cooking.
Hosted by Brendon Bennetts and Karen Healey
Featuring: Dan Bain and Laura Borrowdale vs Erin Harrington and Emma Cusdin

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S04E03: Fads

Wednesday 11 April 2018

Put down your fidget spinners, hunt out your stirruped Adidas trackies and fire up the fondue pot – in this episode the nerds will be grappling with trends, crazes and fads. Why is the 80s so hot right now? What’s with those cold shoulder shirts? Is finesse a good or a bad thing? We honestly don’t know, but we can say that nerds are always in style!*

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S04E02: Fights!

Wednesday 14 March 2018

Take off your glasses and roll up your sleeves as the nerds are faced with any nerd’s worst nightmare: fights. From gunfights to bunfights and barroom brawls to Dragon uppercuts (Hadouken!), it’s gonna be a bareknuckled-knockdown-drag-out-no-holds-barred slapfest, and the only rule is no eye gouging (this goes for you too, audience). No quarter will be given until we prove that contrary to what you may have heard, violence in fact solves everything. So angry up your blood and hit a piece of celery with a mallet in a recording studio; this is gonna get bloody.
Hosted by Ben Allan and Brendon Bennetts
Featuring: Jeff Clark and Aaron Jelley vs Ray Shipley and Emma Cusdin

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S03E26: The New Adventures of Nerd Degree

Wednesday 24 January 2018

The New Adventures of the Nerd Degree we ring in the nerdly year with a highly novel celebration of the new and the new-ish. We’ll be pitting original series and much-loved canon against new generations and reboots, to ask: is there really such as a thing as a new idea?
Hosted by Erin Harrington
Featuring: Andrew Kepple and Matt Powell vs Jen O'Sullivan and Javier Jarquin

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S03E25: 2017 in Review

Wednesday 10 January 2018

Nerd Degree: New! Yeah!
Brendon Bennetts hosts 2017 In Review, in which our Nerds take a look back over the last year to investigate the highs, the lows, and the general weirdness that was 2017.
Featuring: Javier Jarquin and Centuri Chan vs Jennifer O'Sullivan and Matt Powell

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S03E24: Christmas. Special.

Saturday 23 December 2017

Holodeck the Halls. It is the Nerd Degree Christmas special! Things get very nerdy, and very christmasy.
Hosted by Brendon Bennetts
Featuring: Erin Harrington and Moata Tamaira vs Karen Healey and Jeff Clark

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S03E23: Star Wars Special III

Wednesday 13 December 2017

Our Third Annual Star Wars Special! Recorded just a few hours before we all went to the midnight screening of The Last Jedi.
Hosted by Brendon Bennetts
Featuring: Andrew Kepple, Moata Tamaira, Centuri Chan, and Ben Allan

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S03E22: Roles

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S03E21: Rocks

Wednesday 8 November 2017

Ben Allan gets the nerds to tackle the exciting world of rocks. Yes, rocks! From just sitting there to lying motionless, rocks can do it all. Did you know our planet is mostly made of them? That’s the only rock fact we’ve got so far, but we’re sure we’ll find more.

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The Blurred Degree: Part 2

Wednesday 25 October 2017

The party rages on for our three year anniversary show.

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The Blurred Degree: Part 1

Wednesday 11 October 2017

To celebrate our three year anniversary we recorded a special episode that is both alcohol themed and alcohol fuelled. Enjoy responsibly.

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S03E18:Festivals

Wednesday 27 September 2017

What’s your idea of a nerd festival? Something nice, like video game easter eggs or very special Christmas episodes? Or something nasty, like an airing of the spoiler grievances, or the crucifixion of a newbie? Join us for a very nerdy movable feast, as Erin Harrington guides you through the torching of ‘THE WICKER NERD’.
Featuring: Ben Allan, Andrew Kepple, Centuri Chan, and Andrew Todd

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S03E18:Festivals

Wednesday 27 September 2017

What’s your idea of a nerd festival? Something nice, like video game easter eggs or very special Christmas episodes? Or something nasty, like an airing of the spoiler grievances, or the crucifixion of a newbie? Join us for a very nerdy movable feast, as Erin Harrington guides you through the torching of ‘THE WICKER NERD’.
Hosted by Erin Harrington
Featuring: Ben Allan, Andrew Kepple, Centuri Chan, and Andrew Todd

S03E17: Arts

Wednesday 13 September 2017

Join Brendon Bennetts for ‘Defence Against the Daft Arts’. Whether it be fine arts, martial arts, arts and crafts, or even the art of the deal; our nerds will prove that comedy is more of an art than a science.
Featuring: Ben Allan and Centuri Chan vs Andrew Todd and Andrew Kepple

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S03E16: Barbarians

Sunday 27 August 2017

Lock up your daughters, valuables, and perishable foodstuffs, because the Nerds are opening up the gates to let the BARBARIANS in to help them answer a burning (village) question: what’s so great about civilisation, anyway? Grab your ridiculously large, probably-compensating-for-something sword, oil up your abs, and prepare your most culturally ignorant remarks; we’ll get to the bottom of this, by hook or by Crom.

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S03E15: Librarians

Thursday 10 August 2017

It’s a catalogue of errors (but maybe some right answers too), as the Nerds delve into the arcane mysteries of that most intimidating of professions, LIBRARIANS. Will they dewey decimate their enemies in the ultimate librarian bun fight or will they play it by the book and reach shelf awareness?
Hosted by Moata Tamaira
Featuring: Jeff Clark and Karen Healey vs Brendon Bennetts and Andrew Kepple

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S03E14: Wonders

Thursday 27 July 2017

WONDERNERDS ARE GO
Wonders of the world, Wonder Woman, Wonderland, even One Direction… our nerds’ minds will wander through them all.
Join a wondrous whimsical once over of the wonderful wizardry of odd.
Hosted by Jeff Clark
Featuring: Centuri Chan and Andrew Todd vs Laura Borrowdale and Brendon Bennetts

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S03E13: Medicine

Wednesday 12 July 2017

I’M NOT A DOCTOR BUT I PLAY ONE ON THE NERD DEGREE:
Hi, everybody! Feeling under the weather? Suffering from an irony deficiency? The nerds have just the prescription: a trip through the pop culture medicine cabinet. First do no harm (but bad puns don’t count though, right?).
Hosted by Dr. Erin Harrington
Featuring: Ben Allan and Tara Swadi vs Laura Borrowdale and Henri Nelis

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S03E12: Spaceships

Thursday 29 June 2017

Arm the proton/photon/plasma/transphasic torpedoes and stagger from side to side slightly as we celebrate that most quintessential of nerdly transportation methods, the spaceship. Can the nerds make the Kessel Run in less than 12 parsecs, or has the power coupling on their negative axis been polarised? (Not to worry; there’s a course of pills you can take). Join the nerds as they attempt to sort out Apollo’s Viper from Armstrong’s Apollo and the Enterprise from, er, all the other Enterprises.

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S03E11: Friends

Tuesday 13 June 2017

It’s mate against mate as the nerds debate whether Legolas would be prepared to help Gimli move house (mine?) and if Harry’s BFF was Ron or Hermione, or maybe the Sorting Hat. Will friends will be friends, as Freddie Mercury would have us believe, or are we going to end up with one of those complicated Professor X / Magneto situations? Only one team can win, but is it even possible to keep both a championship and a friendship? Surely you’d need some sort of marina.
Hosted by Brendon Bennetts
Featuring: Andrew Kepple and Moata Tamaira vs Henri Nelis and Centuri Chan

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S03E10: Cake

Wednesday 24 May 2017

Marcel Proust’s madelines, or the Queen of Hearts’ jam tarts? Icing or frosting? Cake or death? This trip to the nerdy bakery is a wonderland of carbs, gluten, and culinary trickery. We’ll be catering for an ‘unexpected party’ and hankering for some of Sansa Stark’s lemon cakes, so even if you think it’s all a croq(uembouche) we’ll have something tasty for you.

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S03E06: Time Travel

Monday 20 March 2017

What year is it?! Who’s the president?! (…Wait, really? Goddamn.) Then I’m not too late. I’ve returned from the dystopian future with a warning; the Nerd Degree episode on time travel on March the 1st, 2017 was the beginning of the end for human civilisation. But it’s not too late! I need you to monitor Andrew Todd, Erin Harrington vs Jeff Clark, Moata Tamaira and ensure that The Event never occurs. You’ll know it when you see it. Hosted by Ben Allan.

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S03E05: Fairy Tales

Wednesday 8 March 2017

Once Upon a Time, in a studio far, far away (well, Ferrymead), four little nerds were tempted by the big bad quiz show host to stray from the path of common knowledge into the strange and frightening world of trivia. Will they be eaten alive, or find a question that is just right?

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S03E04: Brains Ajar

Wednesday 22 February 2017

Minds are our business in THE NERD DEGREE: BRAINS AJAR, an odyssey into what goes on inside your skulls and ours. Join us as we tease, rack, pick, and probably ultimately fry our brains through forcing them to think about themselves. Mind. Blown.

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S03E03: Heart of Dorkness

Saturday 11 February 2017

It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single nerd in possession of a good stash of limited edition collectibles, must be in want of a quality comedy podcast. In this warm and fuzzy romantic episode the nerds will slash their way through bromances, pash their way through rom coms, and smash their way through the greatest love stories of our time to find out who will say “I love you”, and who will reply, “I know”.
Featuring: Erin Harrington, Brendon Bennetts, Rosie Cann, Karen Healey, and Moata Tamaira

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S03E02: 2017 in Preview

Wednesday 25 January 2017

In this episode the nerds finish reviewing 2016 and begin to look ahead to what the future holds. Including the 2016 Fan Fiction Challenge, and a thorough analysis of the possibility of The Running Man coming true.
Hosted by Brendon Bennetts
Featuring: Karen Healey, Javier Jarquin, Jeff Clark, and Andrew Todd

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S03E01: 2016 in Review

Wednesday 11 January 2017

2016: a phenomenal success or Worst. Year. Ever? Our nerds look at the highs, lows, wins, losses, Civil Wars and Stranger Things that have happened in pop culture and the real world over the past twelve months. Who won? Who lost? Our nerds battle it out to have the last word on the last year. One thing’s for sure, though: no-one is allowed to play the Trump card.

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S02E19: Star Wars Special II

Wednesday 14 December 2016

Do or do not. There is no try. So no pressure there for the nerds to answer all of our mind melting questions about the Star Wars universe. Who can tell their Bith from their Bothans, their Rodians from their Rancors, and their Gungans from their Gundarks (this is a crucial distinction), their Wampas from their Womp Rats, their Mandalorians from their Midichlorians.

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S02E18: Bite Night

Thursday 24 November 2016

Vampires! Whether you like them creepy and crawly or gorgeous and sparkly, soulless killing machines or tortured wanderers of the night, we’ve got the Nerd Degree for you. Sharpen your stakes as renowned vampire defender Karen Healey leads the nerds through the seductive realm of all things bloodsucker.

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S02E17: Destination Unknown

Wednesday 9 November 2016

In this geography-themed episode the worldly nerds will grab their passports and ask: where be dragons? They may be some latitude given in terms of their answers but whether they’re climbing the Mountains of Madness, plumbing the depths of The Abyss or galloping across the Dothraki Sea, the nerds are Ghana have a good time.

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S02E16: The Texas Brain Saw Massacre

Wednesday 26 October 2016

Do you have the guts to face your greatest fears? Can you handle the terror of four nerds bent on scaring up laughs from history’s most frightening pop culture? Do you cower at the dreadful thought of horror trivia too obscure to even comprehend? The Nerd Degree will not be liable for fainting, seizures, or death caused by this show. Audience discretion advised!
Featuring: Andrew Todd, Emma Cusdin, Erin Harrington, Andrew Kepple, Jeff Clark, and Ben Allan

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S02E15: THAT BELONGS IN A MUSEUM

Thursday 13 October 2016

Join the nerds as they become tomb raiders (of the lost ark) in an unsanctioned delve into all things archaeological. Can they escape deadly traps, treacherous guides, and pesky official government regulations about who actually owns the valuable antiquities of a sovereign nation to emerge with the fabled Golden Ankh of Comedic Respectability? Is it even possible to recover an ancient treasure without gunning down more people than Liam Neeson? And what’s this tiger been eating down here this whole time, anyway? Finally, all of the fedora action you crave with none of the latterly-associated rubbish MRA stuff.
Featuring: Ben Allan, Karen Healey, Andrew Kepple, Erin Harrington, and Jeff Clark

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S02E14: Prime Detective

Wednesday 28 September 2016

The questions will be far from elementary for our Nerds who must use their little grey cells to piece together the fiendish clues host Laura Borrowdale has prepared for them. Tune in to find out which of these criminally underrated masterminds will prove they are the true detective.
Featuring: Andrew Kepple, Ben Allan, Brendon Bennetts, Andrew Todd, and Erin Harrington

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S02E13: Animated Discussions

Wednesday 14 September 2016

Host Jeff Clark comes out of his cell to look at the world of animation - discussing everything from Anime to Animaniacs; My Little Pony to Bojack Horseman; or even that obscure cartoon show “The Simpsons”. These nerds will need to be quick on the draw - you’ll get Disney spells with all of their sketchy details!

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S02E11: Teen Girl Squad

Wednesday 10 August 2016

Jennifer O'Sullivan just wants to have fun as she chaperones the nerds through the mystery of the Surfer Ghost, Karen’s disturbingly encyclopedic knowledge of teen girl movies, and the electoral showdown between Katniss Everdeen and Joan of Arc.

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S02E10: There and Back Again

Wednesday 27 July 2016

Ben Allan leads the Nerds on a journey to the very limits of their knowledge. Find out how far Frodo really travelled, meet the most impressively named polar explorers, and prepare for the ultimate Mars expedition.

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S02E09: Final Frontiers

Wednesday 13 July 2016

Andrew Todd hosts our celebration of 50 years of Star Trek. Our nerds debate the relative merits of the Borg versus the Klingons, speculate as to why Bones was such a dick, and bring a five year old’s Picard fan fiction to life.

Featuring: Henri Nelis, Wiremu Tuhiwai, Karen Healey, and Ben Allan

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S02E08: The Little Things

Wednesday 22 June 2016

In this episode the nerds take time to appreciate the little things in life: arguing about sky prawns, the smurfs, and what MODOK really stands for.

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S02E03: FLIGHT CLUB

Wednesday 13 April 2016

With a spate of movies pitting heroes against one another, Jeff Clark asks the teams: why can’t all the superheroes just get along?
Featuring: Brendon Bennetts, Erin Harrington, Ben Allan, and Laura Borrowdale.

Theme music: “Another beek beep beer please” by Rolemusic.

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THE NERD DEGREE: BUCCANEER UP YOUR IDEAS

Wednesday 23 March 2016

Splice your mainbrace, shiver your timbers and suck a lime to stave off scurvy as the Nerd Degree broadsides easily the most popular category of murderers among small children: pirates. Which team will plunder a king’s ransom in Spanish gold, which team will be detained at His Majesty’s pleasure until they dance the hemp jig at Execution Dock, and what does a bo’sun even do, anyway? We know of a one-eyed man in Tortuga with a mysterious map who may have the answers you seek…
Featuring: Ben Allan, Katie Cowan, Andrew Todd, Centuri Chan, and Jeff Clark

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S02E01: Waiter waiter, there's a nerd in my soup!

Wednesday 9 March 2016

Jiminy Cricket! This episode looks at all things creepy crawly, from the microscopic to the world-destroying, all delivered in a breathy, Attenborough whisper. The Nerd Degree: lifting 5000 times its own weight since whenever ago.
Featuring: Erin Harrington, Dan Bain, Henri Nelis, Brendon Bennetts, Laura Borrowdale, and Katie Cowan

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NZ Skeptics Special: Apocalypse How?

Monday 4 January 2016

Jeff Clark took the Nerd Degree gang to the 2015 NZ Skeptics conference. The theme was The Apocalypse, and for some reason they weren’t willing to take some of our more outrageous claims at face value, but it turned out that wasn’t the end of the world.

Theme music: “Another beek beep beer please” by Rolemusic.

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Episode 25: Stars and/or Wars

Friday 25 December 2015

In this episode, host Brendon Bennetts studiously avoids anything related to that popular movie about space violence. Instead this episode deals with questions relation to stars, and questions relating to wars, but never BOTH AT THE SAME TIME.

Theme music: “Another beek beep beer please” by Rolemusic.

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Episode 24: STAR WARS SPECIAL

Wednesday 9 December 2015

It is a period of civil war. Nerdy comedians, striking from a hidden base (well, a couple of desks with microphones), have answered their first questions posed by their evil host: Brendon Bennetts.
Yup, it’s STAR WARS time. All STAR WARS, all the time. STAR WARS STAR WARS STAR WARS.

Theme music: “Another beek beep beer please” by Rolemusic.

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Episode 23: Beastmasters

Thursday 3 December 2015

From radioactive spiders to damn dirty apes, nerd culture is a sprawling petting zoo of animal antics. Join Andrew Todd and the Nerd Degree pack, as we examine the killer and cuddly sides of the geek bestiary.
Theme music: “Another beek beep beer please” by Rolemusic.

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Episode 21: Dude, Where's My Flying Car?

Friday 6 November 2015

The world of tomorrow is calling! (Will you accept the charges?) This episode, the nerds (featuring special guest Ned the Nerdbot) venture into an exciting future filled with killer A.I., Martian butterflies, and Kevin Costner.

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Episode 20: Big Sports Match Game

Friday 30 October 2015

Host Ben Allan leads the teams onto the field to see which team ultimately has what it takes to take out this year’s League Cup Premiership, and tackles the nerd sports pantheon from Ground Quidditch to Battlemech Duelling.
Centuri Chan and Henri Nelis vs Scott Koorey and Karen Healey.
Announcer: Cameron McLeod.

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Episode 16: Mything Persons

Wednesday 16 September 2015

Karen Healey and the nerds go where angels fear to tread, into the underworld of humanity’s origin stories, where heroes smash skulls and gods are forever on the prowl. It’s the Myths and Legends episode!

Host: Karen
Erin and Jeff vs Cen and Brendon
Voice: Andrew

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Episode 15: Electoral Dysfunction

Wednesday 12 August 2015

The Soylent Green Party (Brendon Bennetts and Henri Nelis) and the Knights Of The Old Republican Party (Ben Allan and Erin Harrington) debate all the tough issues, from coal-mine monsters to North Korean cartoons to youth death arenas. Moderated by Andrew Todd, with analysis by Karen Healey.

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Episode 14: Ghost Protocol

Wednesday 15 July 2015

Brendon Bennetts is haunted by ECTO-1 (Jeff Clark and Karen Healey), The Mystery Machine (Matt Powell and Grain of Truth host David Innes), and Cusdin the Friendly Ghost.

(Sorry this episode is up late: Matt vanished and nobody else could solve the mystery of how to upload the file. Turns out Old Man Withers stole the password. Also sorry about the previously-missing final 17 minutes or so of this episode. Hopefully everything is fixed now.)

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Episode 13: Humerus Edition

Monday 22 June 2015

Team Spleen (Jeff and Cen) face off against Team Bad Blood (Brendon and Jen) under the watchful eye of Dr Erin Harrington and right-hand man Ben Allan, and explore a body of knowledge while trying not to make dicks of themselves.

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Episode 12: Goodness Cretaceous Me

Wednesday 3 June 2015

Journey back in time to when dinosaurs roamed the earth and 6-year-old you gazed at them in wonder. Ben Allan hosts the Thag Simmons Institute for Empirical Research (Matt Powell and Jen O'Sullivan) and the KT Extinction (Scott Koorey and Andrew Todd).

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Episode 9: Monster Grill

Tuesday 21 April 2015

Erin and the nerds take on the world of monsters. Team Jekyll (Centuri Chan, Jeff Clark, and Karen Healey) versus Team Hyde (Wiremu “Woody” Tuhiwai, Matt Powell, and Ben Allan) with Brendon Bennetts under the bed.

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Episode 7: The March Of Progress

Monday 23 March 2015

Guest host Matt Powell, with the help of the severed head of Ben Allan in a jar, takes the nerds through the world of science and science fiction. Featuring Team Live Cat (Jeff Clark, Erin Harrington, Andrew Todd) and Team Dead Cat (Centuri Chan, Derek Flores, and Brendon Bennetts).

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Episode 5: Is Alive!

Wednesday 4 February 2015

Episode 5 Is Alive! Toys For Bots (Dan Bain, Jeff Clark, and Centuri Chan) versus Doctors Without Borders Between Realities (Karen Healey, Ben Allan and Scott Koorey). When will the machines finally take over, and will there be anything left?

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Episode 4: A Nerd Hope

Wednesday 7 January 2015

Episode 4 of The Nerd Degree takes on time travel, as The Cyberdyne Army (Erin Harrington, Andrew Todd, and Karen Healey) take on The Emmett L Brown Orphanage and Juvenile Correctional Facility (Matt Powell, Derek Flores, and Jennifer O'Sullivan).

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Nerd Degree Holiday Special

Wednesday 17 December 2014

Brendon Bennets sits down with Andrew Todd, Matt Powell, Jeff Clark, and newcomer Karen Healey to go over some nerdly highs and lows of 2014.

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Episode 3: Dork Of The Moon

Wednesday 3 December 2014

Our third episode introduces some new players, with Jeff Clark, Scott Koorey, and Centuri Chan playing for the Terminator Salvation Army, and Henri Nelis, Erin Harrington, and Derek Flores playing for the McCallister Foundation. Find out what everyone thinks of the new Star Wars trailer, and learn some valuable parenting tips.

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Episode 2: Great Balls Of Fire

Wednesday 5 November 2014

Our second episode, where we discuss celebrity paradoxes, green-skinned love, and chaos. This month: Brendon Bennetts pits Matt Powell, Erin Harrington, and Jeff Clark (playing for the Krueger Foundation) against Centuri Chan, Andrew Todd, and Ben Allan (playing for Once Were Warriors).

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Episode 1: Great White Privilege

Wednesday 1 October 2014

Welcome to The Nerd Degree, a brand new panel show recorded live at Orange Studio in Christchurch, New Zealand. This month: Brendon Bennetts hosts Erin Harrington, Ben Allan, and Jeff Clark against Andrew Todd, Centuri Chan, and Matt Powell.

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The Nerd Degree
is a new panel show by nerds, for nerds.
It’s the brainchild of Brendon Bennetts
and is recorded monthly at Orange Studio in
Christchurch, New Zealand.